Verizon iPhone, stop us if you've heard this before

unbelievable

I have been personally told by a friend who is a genius at apple that there will definitely be a verizon iPhone...but it will not be in january

I use simultaneous voice & data on my Blackberry (which is rapidly declining now that I'm at the end of my att contract - conspiracy theorists jump in), but it's not a dealbreaker if I can't. I want iPhone on Verizon for two reasons, and two reasons only.

1. I want an iPhone. Period. Lust conquers sense.
2. I want to be able to use a phone in places I like to go for those nice long weekend getaways where EVERYBODY else (even T-Mobile) has reception except for me. Verizon is the only one that has consistently had coverage no matter where we go, and that's all I need.

Besides, I'm an ex-Verizon customer who switched to att years ago before the days of unlimited mobile-to-mobile between carriers. When it comes to how the big boys treat their customers, they all have pretty much a ho-hum attitude once they have you locked in for two years.

"No way is Apple going to downgrade the functionality of their phone just for the sake of "more" customers. In case you haven't followed the company for 20 years, here's the deal: they care more about making customers happy than getting more customers."

Actually, Apple has been going in the exact opposite direction as this statement would indicate. They have been quite rapidly chasing the mass-consumer market with every hardware and software product they create, and yes plenty of compromises have been made along the way. Final Cut Pro is now a lost cause, no Blu Ray support, no Flash on iDevices (even as an option), totally locked down iOS etc.

I love me some Apple products, own just about everything they've made in the past ten years except an Apple TV. But there is no point in pretending that they don't compromise features or functionality in return for higher sales.

How big of a CDMA chip order area we talking? Like, big enough for the 1000 Chinese people who actually have the money for an iPhone? Or big enough for all the whiny preteens with iPod touches stuck under the parental shelter of Big Red?

Being in partnership with AT&T has caused severe disrepute for Apple in US. I have iPhone in Canada, but if I was in US I would not have gotten it simply because of AT&T. BTW, I do travel often to US to know which network is better.

So I can't talk on the phone and go on the internet at the same time? So what? I can't do that now because the network is so bad I can't make calls from my house. I will switch to Verizon in a heartbeat.

Hey there, I am one of the many customers that want a Verizon iPhone, don't really care that much about call and data at the same time, though I can see when it would come in handy. I currently have a Verizon Palm Pre Plus (closest, in my opinion, to the overall experience of an iPhone, but the free Mobile Hot Spot allows me to use the Verizon Network on my iPod touch). What I want to correct from this article is this 'Unless Verizon insists on the bloaty crapware and big honkin' V they put on all their phones -- that could further delay such a deal.' Guess what? No where to be found on my Palm Pre Plus. So can people stop saying this is a reason that would prevent Apple from going to Verizon? Please? I mean, I even have the Amazon MP3 store on there, not Verizon's music service. Oh, and I got my phone directly from Verizon, not a third party/reseller, and the ones in the store also don't have any signs of it.

And as that evidence points out, America is the most important consumer of the iPhone I'm the world. And I hope I'm dead before that changes.

On a side note I also want to be dead before peak oil is reached and reported.

It's funny considering that with the launch of the iPhone 4 here in Hong Kong, they've added a third (well, in practice two) mobile carrier that carried the iPhone. 3 was the "exclusive" carrier in 2008 for the 3G, Smartone-Vodafone was added in 2009 with the 3GS launch and this year two differing carriers (One2Free and 1010) both run by CSL have joined.

I guess it helps that HK is predominantly a GSM coverage area, with only legacy "cheaper" networks running on CDMA/TDMA. 3G and so-called 3.5G coverage is also very extensively developed... and unlimited data contracts are still the norm.

I know TUAW is predominantly US-centric, but maybe some coverage of how the iPhone 4 is doing in other countries like the UK and Australia would be nice for comparison? I love my iPhone4 and do have some issues with the battery (I guess I'm used to a Nokia that lasts a full 24 hours with heavy use), but I've got not problem with "antennagate" at all.